past versions of ggplot2 used to accept family as an argument directly, but the latest ggplot2 (perhaps starting with v2?) requires method.args=list(). So the online sources you found using family directly were for an older version of ggplot.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 8:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. I’m a student from South Korea, and I’m studying R by myself. > While I am studying, I have a trouble dealing with ggplot(especially, > about parameter ‘family’) > > b <- biopsy > > b$classn[b$class == "benign"] <- 0 > > b$classn[b$class == "malignant"] <- 1 > > ggplot(b, aes(x = V1, y = classn)) + geom_point(position = > position_jitter(width = 0.3, height = 0.06), alpha = 0.4, shape = 21, size > = 1.5) + stat_smooth(method = "glm", family = “bimomial")) #first code > Warning: Ignoring unknown parameters: family > > While studying, I am wondering why there is a warning message. And also, > there comes a wrong logistic model(Above picture). But in fact, I expect > the below picture from the above code. > > > And the below code yields ‘the model’ that I expected(below picture) > ggplot(b, aes(x = V1, y = classn)) + geom_point(position = > position_jitter(width = 0.3, height = 0.06), alpha = 0.4, shape = 21, size > = 1.5) + stat_smooth(method = "glm", method.args = list(family = > "binomial")) > > > > > What’s wrong with the first code? When I searched about that from online, > other people don’t seem to have a problem using family parameters. > (I currently updated ggplot2, MASS, and sjPlot (Also, double checked it) > Plus, I used code w/ or w/o using “”) > > > I hope getting a good response from you. > Thanks for reading my mail, and if my message has a rude expression, I’m > sorry for my bad english skills..:( > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

